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PAGE EJGHT iW OREGON. STATESMAN, Salecu Oregon, Friday Morning, September 80, 1932 A' Football Romance "HUDDLE Her U th plnf chapter t "HoddU," U Uu-t-Ufe, tru-to grid, iraa Mrtal ttory: s - . ; i. ' , By FRANCIS WALLACE 4 J' CHAPTER. 1 ' -v- , :,Ted. Wynne's, decision to. leave the .'ateel mill and to college - had 'caused minor 'sensation In f ttae small town of Bellport. . " (v; Hit lather wa.s stoutly opposed? goi.you a-cood Job in thd , mill ) you're the youngest foreman the'rer-and. yon-want' to quit and' J3a an educated tool; f one of tbetn ;.i7hIt'o. collared lui3.tob good to do , : m 'boAestday't work with. -their hands.. The mllr is good enough Tor the. and it's gOcd enough for you." If you leare youll get no help from me."; ".His' mother did ot understand. - tut she wag' sympathetic. "All I want Is for you to make a man of yourself, boy. It's up to .t)u.-If you think you should-do ; this I have confidence In you. 'She talked r to , her . husband. ' He'll hare a better chance, John lie's a smart boy and a good boy. Think of all the hard work you've ilone: long hours: hot weather: flfht turn and you never leave the ' house that I'm ' not -afraid r .t-voull pet hurt." Bar Roth had laughed. 1 , i ' It s a break for me. I was wondering bow I'd ever get rid of you. 'You're holding up fine,"! he had answered. "I was afraid v.ould have a crying woman on my hands." "So long. Ambitious. If I send you any candy " V "I'll look for arsenic." Barb was 17, a high school sen -t, financially and spiritually in dependent. Their brief friendship '.-ad been founded on dancing and J:ved on wise cracks: but knowing Barb had sent Ted Wynne to col !lse. He had been thinking of going; t;. Iking of It; but it might never -ve happened had he not met inrb. Behind their levity he had crlous thoughts: thoughts of uilrriage and family. He could not :T3 a future in the steel business "If you can get Out, do it while vru're young," Henry McArdle, : :-2 general foreman; had told him. 7a practical fellows never get be- nd-these Jobs; the corporation ' bringing young engineers out of cllege and training them to be- cme executives.- There won t be ;-.-y more Farrells." ' Cen Hazeltlne, his superintend i t. had spoken frankly. Ted, you weren't fashioned for ; mill man. Don t mistake me would always do a good Job; i. .t it doesn't consume you. If rou are fixed to go to college, do :. If you take engineering you can me back without your continu- : of service being broken." But Ted was't technically mind 1 1. When a roll broke he would By FRANCIS WALLACE find, a comfortable spot and lie idown; or write letters;, while the thing . for. a . foreman to do if be jwanted to' impress was to fuss around the ; mill-wrights ' or 1 roll jhands who were' making repairs: jOn a hot day when men; were Iscarce and ,it 'became a problem for the wits to keep.the wneels running,' Ted loved , the excite- ment; and he did a swell Job; but ordinarily, he griped' about r the long hours and .night shifts every. pened, he couldn't imagine her as the wife of a rolling mill man. Barb was-fragile;, pastel not the type for packing dinner buck ets or washing the crystalline sweat out fo heavy flanner shirts. She hadn't'been brought up to it and she couldn't conie down to.lt." Her father ad practiced law un til a fortunate purchase' of coI land had made him wealthy. The money was a. subtle barrier and chollenge, tot Ted. He had no as surance that Barb would ever feel for him as he did for her; but there wa plenty of time; and if ,She did, he would bring her some thing imore than a steel mill Job. Tom Stone had helped. Stone had been kicked out of two prep schools but had finally managed to get enough credits to enter New Dominion. He was something of a football player and wanted to play for the famous Barney Mack and his Blue Comets. Stone was so high - handedly arrogan t . about things that" it was generally as sumed around the gang that he would immediately become a regu lar and eventually an All-American. The girls were terrifically im pressed and Barb was silly as any. So, in the midst of a Tom Stone rally, Ted had calmly announced that he, astf, was going to New Dominion, and might play foot ball. He had had his big moment, of course. Ted bad gone into the mill after leaving high school and was, jgenerally thought to hae a good job. and a pleasant future theft.' He' had been a fair nfgh school football player, but too light; his years In the mill, how ever, bad given him sufficient weight. ': ! Having made his announcement Ted was suddenly abashed; but Barb's jeering. Stone's insolence and the general assumption that he couldn't make the grade anger ed him, gave him the urge to in augurate the necessary prelimin aries there was nothing left, af ter that, but to go through with It. ; They thought him brazen; pri vately, he was inclined to agree; but, when he was definitely ac cepted by the registrar, Ted was glad things had happened. There were things he wanted to know; places be wanted to go; as a col lege man be seemed lifted to a sphere previously forbidden; the DRUGS Prescriptions Sundries Fountain Remedies Toiletries The Original Yellow Front Drug Store of Salem 135 N. Commercial St. j Phone 5197 For Friday and Saturday We reserve the right to limit quantities. None to dealers. SCHAEFER'S HOME REMEDIES SCHAEFER'S CORN Remover APPLY Let DRY Five applications and that painful crippling corn comes off like wax. Isn't that worth two-bits of anybody's money? Guaranteed. No cure no pay that's the Schae fer way. Made in SaWm. Only 25c Safe Remedies For i Winter Better get a supply of Schaefer's Cold Remedies for winter colds and coughs. fact , that ; a little. "rashness had opened the door, surprised and il luminated, his mind. Ted , Wynne feltrthat he belonged on the upper floor of life, i ' ' I, -V-So he Tiad 'gone off 'to college witfit hlst head, swimming. Things Jo do; .people to show;" the world beckoning him. on" yet. .'warning, him' that he was fighting his own battle and must not whln& it W ibsC'.--l r"- V:, Ted was contented. He .had $700 of his own money in iis "pocket;, with vacation' Jobs and- Vftrk at school It would have to last him' for four year. Fair-enough; all he asked was hi? health. - J 1 l) Is. mother had 'cried. .So hid Ted.- He had sat on his trunk in the, back of a truck, and watched her wiping her eyes with an apron corner, and waving goodbye like a little girl until the truck turned a corner., ' . His football pretensions had not been serious they had been based mostly on -' bis dislike . of - Stone. Knowing , that. Tom would come back during.vacatidns to be fawn ed over, Ted went out for fresh man football hoping to make a crecutabi snowing and was sur prised 'to; discover-that he could cope with - the others on - equal terms.: Ted had always been a good kicker, and his extra weight, all of it solid stuff.made It possible for bim.to stand the gaff. . Twice. I while the f rosh were scrimmaging the varsity, he nailed Jim Davis back of the line. "Who is that freshman playing In the varsity backfield?" Barney Mack asked sarcastically. On the next play, the varsity men gave Ted a beating as he came in; when he went down under the play, he got a knee in the ribs and a fist in his face. The varsity men said nothing; for more; was surprised to find neither did Ted; but he came back that he liked it. , . 'Atta baby, freshman." Barney Mack had said. Ted flushed under his headgear. Two weeks out of the mill iand Barney Mack" had praised him. This football was tough stuff but it was big stuff; he might make the grade and win a letter, anyhow. But after another. week Ted bad to give up football. "Finally shook you off. did 1?" Stone asked. "Unless you want to pay my billsf Ted replied. "But I'll be hanging around." Then Barney Mack sent for him. "Why did you quit, Wynne? You were doing pretty good out there." t "I'm out here on my own, Mr. Mack; and the only job I could find was working in a grocery from 3 to 6 in the afternoon." "So you had to give up foot ball. Well, your studies are the important thing; and you have to live." Barney toyed with his omni present cigar. "You looked pretty good out there, Wynne; suppose we give you a job out here that would help take care of your ex penses?"' "Great," Ted answered, "what would I have- to do?" "Oh. this and that we can find a job after you come out. You give up your room downtown, and go see the registrar and he'll get a room for you on the campus." Hills Cascara Quinine Tablet 30c she 21c LIMIT OXE Full Pints Norwegian Cod Liver Oil 25c Regular 45c Modes . 10c LIMIT OXR Parke Davis Cod Liver Oil Full Pints 75c It is folly to pay more than our prices. It is dangerous to pay less and get inferior goods. Our prices are low est and our stock is always fresh.. We will not offer for sale shop-worn' or stale merchandise. On these principles we have- built our far-wide business. It is wise to Schaeferize -Salem's Outstanding Drug and Candy Special Store , C i;; i. tt n it : f - Stone was so high-htndedly arrogant about things that it was generally assumed he would immediately become a regular. . Groves Bromo Quinine 19c LIMIT OXK . 65c Carnpani's r Italian Balm . 39c LIMIT OfXE CHAPTER II Barney looked at his watch; the interview was over; Ted hesitated. His heart was leaping but bis mind was troubled. "About what would I have to do, Mr. Mack?" Barney was annoyed. "You've got to work, you know. We're not giving educations away Just for football services." "That's Just it, Mr. Mack " "Say, young fellow," Barney in terrupted, "you're getting the break of a lifetime. Take it or leave it;. and make up your mind quick." : Ted saw opportunity slipping; they said that If Barney ever got down on a fellow he was washed up. It was time for plain talk. "I appreciate what you've of fered me, Mr. Mack; and I'm will ing to work; Jmt I want to make sure I have a job at regular stu dent rates." Barney's eyes opened wide. He twisted bis cigar like a pinwheel. "So that's it." "Yes, sir; I gave up a lot when I quit work and came to college; I think a boy who helps a school make money from football is en titled to a free education; but the law of the xolleges says it's boot legging.' f "Play things safe, don't you, Wynne?'? "I play the percentage. Mr. Mack." ; "How i did you happen to come here?" Barney asked. Ted told his story. Barney punc tuated it with quick questions. In the manner of a physician listen ing to a patient's symptoms. "You quit a good job to come to college and work in a grocery store, eh? Play safe on little things and take chances on big ones? Give up football to work in a store? Play the percentage. Handled' men, have you? How old. are you?" "Twenty." "How much do you weigh?" "One seventy-six.'! "All right, Wynne. You move out here and I'll see that you get five hundred dollars off at regular student rates. Tomorrow you go out for football again; but you switch to quarterback." "Quarterback?" here. Bo cocky. The quarterback is a leader here, Wynne. I don't give a damn whether, they like you or not make them' respect you; be smarter in class; on the field; think ahead of the mob.. You can do It, Wynne,youve got the right stuff . ... "V , ' "Thank you," . ; .:. "And Wynne most boys would say. you were a. fool saying what you did.' Keep on being that kind of a fool, Wynne. You're right about football; ther are things' I don't approve of either; but it's too big now, and in the meantime well Just go along with things as we "find" them." :' ;. Barney smiled; hla face opened up-until It become as round and jovial - as that of the man - In "the moon; that was the smile the boys said mane you forget every un pleasant thing he. had ever said te you.' ; ; - -.; iv - Ted walked downthe Ptn .with his head somewhere near the gold en dome that topped the adminis tration building. Barney Mack had picked him out; and they said that when Bar ney started to work on a fellow be was as good as made. Barney sel dom made mistakes in picking his men. What a world. H ia mother and Barney Mack believed in him. The next afternoon Ted went in to call signals for Stone's back field. ' "Still following me around," Stone commented. "Ordering you around," Ted corrected. Life was opening up beautiful ly; if Barb would show some sign of Interest it would be perfect.. . But Barb hadn't come to the station to see him off; she had written one scraggly note, fear fully composed. - . He loved even her imperfec tions. - Ted liked living on the campus; rushing with the mob to the din ing hall three times each day; wearing sweaters, corduroys and heavy shoes; chucking a book un der an arm and hurryinr off to class in a building two hundred yards away; dropping in on other boys in their rooms boys from California to Boston; and the thing he liked about it most was that you couldn't look at a boy and tell who he was or what he had; democracy was a fact at New Dominion; regular fellows who lived in the expensive nails were almost apologetic. At New Dominion a fellow got by on what he could do; not who he was. At home in Bellport Ted was a level below Stone socially he always had the feeling that he was crashing an upper flight at Barb's parties. At Now Dominion Ted wai Stone's equal. He liked that; liked everything about his new life but the loneliness which grew more poignant each day; at night, when the excitement Of the football season had ended and Christmas vacation was drawing near, he got to dreaming about home; and waking to the rude shock of the morning bell. Sometimes it seemed that Bell port, his mother, the mill, Barb, were all part of a dream. Exams. Before coming to college Ted had wondered if, after two years of work, he could pick up and keep pace with the others who went on from high school; he seemed to be doing it in class particularly in philosophy . which filled that void in his mind; gare him the answer, or provided toe means to an answer, of what it was all about. He studied psychol ogy and logic with a dictionary at hand; applied his experience in the mill to economics; battled with the irregular verbs of Span ish, and relaxed on English and history. When quarterly exams came he reviewed doggedly; punished his eyes; walked around the lake with note-book, quizzing himself. When they came he was ready; dressed in his beet clothes, like a bridegroom; calmly he wrote his answers. Stone had prepared elaborate ponies; others had their favorite examination stunts; a flowing flannel shirt which could carry note-books easily; information neatly typed on toilet paper which could be wound about a forefin ger; dates pasted on the inside of a watch hasty glances at the pa per of the chap in the next chair; whispered queries from the twist ed sides of ventriloquistic mouths. Furtive looks. Bootlegging knowledge. When the marks were posted a few days later the name of Ted Wynne was near the top in every thing but Spanish and at the top in philosophy. He felt respect af ter that. Barney met him on the campus. "That's the- way to knock them over," he said, "don't give a damn whether they like you make them respect you." Ted sent his marks home to his mother. And a startling deduction blazed across his mind: College was very much an accident ot birth; many of the sons of millionaires should bo driving Ice wagons; many boys he knew in the mill and shops and mines at home were of far better material tor leadership. .. ; '. Ted realized he had always looked up to the ruling, class as such; had ascribed to them qual ity per se; being among them, competing with them, bad chang ed bis slant. . : It was always the individual rathr than the class. Home. ' ' ' . Ted did a dance In the empty B.&O. station, chilly and forbid ding as .a tomb at 5 in the. morn ing; lugged his bag down the long flight of. rickety, wooden stairs. , Whom would be see first?. . . The dark shadows of the caver nous street .caressed him; the slimy fog -was perfume. His town? 'Just a burg to oth ers; but home to him. The face of the town bum thrilled him. ' "Have a cup- ot coffee, Pume- iy." "Sure." The waiter at. the all-night res taurant was mopping the floor; be was a new. waiter George had probably been caught tapping the till at last. Pumely added ham and eggs to the coffee while Ted chat ted about people and the town. Men hurried in- with dinner bas kets on. their arms, hands buried in pockets, caps pulled over ears; bought stogies, cigarettes or chew ing tobacco for the long day's pull and went back to the street, heads hunched in coat collars. Going to the mill Uke condemn ed figures in the -gloom; but he knew they considered themselves important entities each a lord to his family, a peer of his fellows. It was better that way; somebody had to do the mule work and con ceit was an armor against what might be painful thought. A life only took so long, after all; and contentment was the big thing. Big Red, night sergeant at the police station, was hungry for in formation inside stuff about Barney Mack and New Dominion. Big Red bad been a football play er himself. 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